Sections: Cubs

Can you handle this much fun?

 

For more information on Cub Scouts in South Australia, visit the website at www.cubscouts.sa.scouts.com.au

Cub Scouts are boys and girls between 7.5-10.5 years of age. The objective of the Cub Scout program is to provide a group environment which is intellectually stimulating, physically vital and directed towards satisfying the child’s basic need to face and overcome challenges.

The activities are based on the natural sense of fun and enthusiasm of the age group and thus the training is achieved largely through games, interaction in small groups and activities.

Cub Scout adult Leaders are known by names such as Baloo and Bagheera which are derived from the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Since children of Cub Scout age have a lively imagination believing in things from Superman to Red Indians, the program of the Cub Scouts Section has its background in Kiplings’ Jungle Book. Unlike many things that children believe in the " Jungle Book" provides excitement and action combined with a strict moral code of the Jungle Law.

There is development from one skill to another (training expressed in all stories of Mowgli), there is physical fitness, love of nature, self-reliance, obedience, loyalty and courtesy. Therefore all parts of Scouting philosophy can find illustration in the" Jungle Book".